Real Madrid could make a bid for Liverpool target Alisson as Roma plan to resist offers until after the World Cup, according to The Guardian.
What’s the word?
The rumour mill has churned out many stories regarding Liverpool’s apparent hunt for a new goalkeeper.
Following Loris Karius’s blunder-filled performance in the Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev, the speculation has intensified.
Alisson has regularly been a name associated with the Reds, and now according to The Guardian, Liverpool could face a battle to sign the shot-stopper.
The report claims that Roma are planning to knock back any offers tabled for the Brazilian until after the World Cup.
In addition, Real Madrid could also launch a move for the 25-year-old, who has been capped 23 times by his country.
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Should Liverpool embark on a bidding war?
The Guardian claims that Roma want around £79m for their shot-stopper.
It is unclear whether Liverpool would be willing to match that figure, but Roma could end up taking advantage if both the Reds and Los Blancos make their interest known.
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Signing a goalkeeper should be at the top of Jurgen Klopp’s list, but they do not want the Alisson pursuit to drag all the way through the summer window.
If possible, any deal for a new shot-stopper should be sorted as quickly as possible so that they can get a full pre-season with the team.
Alisson certainly meets the criteria that Liverpool need, but they should continue keeping an eye on other targets.
Love him or hate him, Jose Mourinho is a manager who certainly captures attention.
The Manchester United coach has a glittering CV given that he has won titles at Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
Mourinho is yet to achieve such a triumph at Old Trafford, but he still has a season left on his contract to do so.
As well as his success on the pitch, the 54-year-old is known for how he handles himself, particularly in front of the media.
The ex-Chelsea boss has often rubbed people up the wrong way and has numerous times got into a public war of words with his peers.
The most recent of spats involves himself and current Blues manager Antonio Conte.
The pair have traded insults back and forth while addressing the media in press conferences.
BBC Sport pundit Garth Crooks thinks that Mourinho’s attitude is an attempt to deflect from the fact that his team have failed to challenge Manchester City in the title race.
The red half of the city are currently 12 points adrift of Pep Guardiola’s side, who lost for the first time in the league this season in a 4-3 defeat to Liverpool last Sunday.
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Crooks has not only lambasted Mourinho for his conduct, he has gone so far as to say that the United boss “gives nothing back” to the game.
In his Team of the Week column for BBC Sport, the pundit wrote:
“[Mourinho] has been irritatingly astute at taking the attention away from the fact that his team have failed to lay a glove on Manchester City and he is using Conte as the diversion. Every time Conte bites back it diminishes the former Itay international who, having played the game at the highest level, respects its customs and traditions. Mourinho on the other hand shows no respect to either of those conventions because he is a mere beneficiary of the game and gives nothing back in return.”
side host Norwich City in the Capital One Cup at Old Trafford in yet another crucial game for David Moyes.
Moyes has enjoyed an indifferent start to life as United boss and he of all people realises how important it is to win silverware in his first season at the club.
After narrowly edging past Stoke City on Saturday, the United faithful will no doubt demand a comprehensive victory here against a Canaries side who are not just struggling for goals, but also form in general.
But Norwich can take hope in the fact that they have never lost a League Cup fixture against United, winning two and drawing one, while they have netted a combined nine goals in the previous rounds of this competition this season.
However, United’s home form in this competition is strong with just one loss from their last eleven at Old Trafford, which doesn’t make pretty reading for Norwich who have failed to win a match at Old Trafford in any competition since 1989.
Despite Moyes’ need for silverware and the fact that that the Capital One Cup looks like a golden opportunity to do so this season, he is still expected to rest some big names on Tuesday night. Robin Van Persie and Wayne Rooney are likely to sit this one out, paving the way for Saturday’s match-winner Javier Hernandez to get the nod up-front. Wilfried Zaha may also start to United, with the England U21 star hoping to impress Moyes in order to earn a chance to play a part in the Premier League.
Considering Hughton’s need to get the Canaries’ league form back on track, he is expected to make a host of changes to his side. Ricky van Wolfswinkel will definitely miss out due to a toe injury, Johan Elmander and Gary Hooper fighting for a starting spot, although Hooper looks a more likely choice after impressing with a match winning brace in the previous round against Watford.
David Moyes knew how much pressure the United job came with, but he will not have expected to be under so much pressure from the fans so soon in to his Old Trafford career, which makes winning this tie more important than it perhaps would have been normally.
Hughton will not want to see he side roll over for United and will, of course, welcome an upset here. And he will telling his players to take a leaf out of Swansea and Bradford’s books from last season after they both caused big upsets to reach the Capital One Cup last season.
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Depression in football is regarded as something of a taboo subject. It is something that has cropped up more and more frequently over the years, and now could be argued a problem that is taken seriously.
Whilst there is so much talk of players ego’s, the vast amounts of money, and the celebrity culture that comes with being a professional footballer, the darker side that sadly does exist is so often overlooked.
A footballers vulnerability is never taken into account. The pressure’s of playing in front of thousands of people week after week, and the pressure to provide success in return for the huge amounts of money being battered about, alongside the physical and mental energy constantly needed can take its toll on a player. These pressures and strains can manifest themselves in different ways, and can often lead to depression.
It is almost a year since former Wales manager Gary Speed took his own life. Whether he was suffering from any sort of depression or mental health issue is unconfirmed, but the tragic nature of his death really made the football world sit up and take notice.
Colleagues queued up to tell us how Speed had a beautiful wife, two beautiful children, wealth and personal success. So how could he possibly be depressed?
This question proved the common misconception regarding depression – particularly amongst sports stars – which has been the root cause of the taboo nature of the subject.
Whether you are sitting on a pile of cash or not, depression can strike anyone at any time, as it is in fact a medical condition. It is not simply that Monday morning feeling, or the feeling you get when your team gets knocked out of the FA Cup. It is like breaking an arm, only the broken bits is in the chemical circuitry of the brain.
Between 20% and 25% of people will suffer from an episode of mental illness in any given year, whilst over a lifetime the risk rises to 40%. Britain has seen antidepressant prescriptions double in the last decade, whilst the world health organisation has warned that by 2030 depression will be the second only to HIV and Aids in the toll the illness exacts most on society. In other words, it is far more common than you would expect.
Going back as far as 1999, former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore made himself unavailable for selection, citing depression as the reason. Rather than receive any sort of support from his club, his former manager John Gregory came out and said to the press: “Collymore should ask himself how it feels to be an unemployed man with four children to feed before he goes declaring himself depressed.”
Gregory may have been ill advised, or simply unaware, but his comments were undoubtably ignorant and the lack of support Collymore received took its toll on the player as he decided to retire from football at the age of 30. He was ridiculed in the media, the same way boxer Frank Bruno had been after suffering a mental breakdown.
Collymore wrote in his autobiography “Tackling my Demons” of the reasons behind his decision to call time on what had been such a promising career.
“Footballers aren’t supposed to retire when they are 30. Not unless they’re injured. Well, I was injured. I was damaged anyway. It was just that it wasn’t the type of damage that made me limp,” he wrote.
“I didn’t have dodgy knees or creaking ankles or cruciates that had to be knitted back together. Physically I was fine.
“Mentally, I was exhausted with it all. I was fried.
“I was full of resentment and bitterness and disillusionment about football and what it had done to me.”
Collymore was not the only player suffering with depression around this time, but whilst he went public many chose to suffer in silence due to fear of being ridiculed by supporters and the press.
Notorious hard man Vinnie Jones has since admitted to suffering from depression during his career, but spoke during a BBC documentary of how back then there was no support network or advice available.
“It was not recognized. Looking back now, there would have been plenty of lads who felt like me and were suffering in silence. There was nobody to talk to. The managers aren’t trained in things like that”, he said.
“If you were bottom of the league and one of the lads turned round and said look lads I’ve got depression you’d slap him round the side of the head. It would be considered a weakness. It wasn’t talked about.”
Whilst times have changed, the tragic case of Gary Speed may have been the wake up call everybody needed with regards to treating such cases differently. Not just in English football either. German goalkeeper Robert Enke tragically committed suicide in 2009 having suffered for many years with clinical depression.
Enke’s biographer Ronald Reng wrote of the reaction his tragic death drew across the world, and how it sadly provided proof that depression can strike anyone at any time.
“Robert was Germany’s number one goalkeeper. The last bulwark, calm and cool in the tensest situations, able to control his stress and anxieties at the most extreme moments,” he said.
“What power must this illness have if it can draw a man like Robert Enke to the mistaken conclusion that death is the only solution?
“Beyond the headlines, deep down, there was real pain of profound paralysis. Robert’s death reminded most of us how little we understand about the illness that is depression.”
In the days after Gary Speed’s death, national newspapers reported that the PFA had produced a handbook to be distributed to all footballers on how to deal with stress and anxiety – both signs of depression – in order to prevent another tragic suicide.
The article also gave the accounts of several other footballers that had suffered in silence with the illness, such as Andy Cole, Clarke Carlisle and Neil Lennon, and their stories were included in the handbook.
The tragic deaths of Enke and Speed seemed to have forced action from sport’s governing bodies. It seems that more is being done in order to help players suffering from the condition, and with more information available following the publication of Robert Enke’s biography and the broadcasting of a BBC documentary on the subject, it appears the illness is being given serious coverage.
As more big names have come forward opening up about their struggles with depression, the media have taken a far less aggressive stance than they did with Stan Collymore’s in 1999.
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Despite the tragic circumstances, it appears the deaths of Enke and Speed have proved a turning point in the way cases of depression in sport is handled.
More help is available nowadays to players suffering, with the option of seeing a sports psychologist privately if they are uncomfortable with revealing their condition to their teammates, managers the public and the press.
It is just such a terrible shame it took such a tragedy to make people sit up and finally take notice.
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Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City have smashed all manner of records en route to winning the 2017/18 Premier League title.
One way to look at City’s accomplishments is that the former Barcelona manager has achieved feats within two years that Sir Alex Ferguson was unable to muster in 20 Premier League seasons.
Why has Guardiola been able to etch this City side into the history books in a way Ferguson’s United seldom managed; certainly not breaking so many records – most points, most wins, most goals – all within one campaign?
One argument is that the standard of the Premier League has decreased in recent seasons. This may seem contrary as the top flight’s middle class has never been richer or better stocked with internationals but there is weight in the argument.
Fergie’s United used to win games on aura alone, but so do City, and there is a pragmatism within the top flight now that ensures avoiding a morale-busting thrashing at the hands of Guardiola’s men is seen as something to be proud of.
Many mid-table sides have gone in pursuit of greater flair, which is not exactly conducive to putting up strong resistance in the face of a long afternoon trying to bloody the nose of a rampant side.
However, the overall quality of player has gone up – each team now has players who can cause damage – so it likely runs deeper than that.
There is also an argument to suggest that Ferguson’s style of play left the door open to a greater extent than even Guardiola’s aggressive brand of football does.
One word that former United stalwart Gary Neville mentions constantly when talking about the club’s traditions under Ferguson is ‘risk’.
That left the door open for the odd aberration when the balance between risk, reward and slickness of performance was slightly out, undermining any hopes of churning out a machine-like season in the manner City have produced this time around.
Yet, there is one, more practical reason behind Ferguson’s comparative ‘failing’. City have been able to focus squarely on the Premier League since their elimination from the Champions League at the hands of eventual finalists Liverpool in early April.
In truth, if the prospect of a Champions League and Premier League double was still on the cards, City would not have been so hell-bent on breaking records, which are great but pale in comparison to trophies.
Ferguson’s greatest title winning teams, especially in 1999, 2007, 2008 and 2009 were generally fighting for multiple honours towards the sharp end of the season.
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Around the turn of the millennium represented United’s best opportunity to set an unassailable record; it is at that period where the difference in desire to set the record under even the notoriously driven Ferguson and the obsessive Guardiola becomes clear.
Guardiola also has experience of maintaining standards throughout title processions, garnered and honed throughout his time with Bayern Munich but that should not diminish his achievement, unmatched by the man who is undisputedly the greatest manager of the Premier League era.
It was not that long ago when Arsenal fans were worried that Hector Bellerin would be snapped up by his former club Barcelona.
In November last year, the right-back signed a new six-year deal at the Emirates, which was met with joy from the fanbase.
Now, though, some are calling for the Spaniard to be dropped in favour of outcast Mathieu Debuchy.
The Frenchman has not featured in a single Premier League game this season as he was seemingly removed from manager Arsene Wenger’s plans.
In fact, the 32-year-old has only played in 13 top-flight matches since the start of the 2015-16 campaign.
On Tuesday night, Debuchy was handed a place in the lineup for the Gunners’ Carabao Cup quarter-final clash against West Ham United at the Emirates.
Danny Welbeck’s goal was the only thing to separate the two sides as Arsenal grabbed a place in the semi-finals.
The game itself was not the most thrilling, but Debuchy caught the eye, particularly after providing the assist for Welbeck’s goal.
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Now some fans are urging Wenger to play the Frenchman ahead of Bellerin.
It’s safe to say that it hasn’t been an easy start for David Moyes at Manchester United. The Red Devils have already lost nearly half the Premier League games they did last season, and we aren’t even at the end of October.
Granted, the Scot has faced a series of incredibly tough fixtures, taking on Swansea, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City in the opening five weeks of the new campaign, but all the United boss has proved so far during his Old Trafford tenure is that Sir Alex Ferguson is an almost impossible act to follow.
Of course, it doesn’t take the brain power of Steven Hawking to realise that a 13-time Premier League title-winning manager would be irreplaceable, but many expected the former Everton manager to have made better progress.
The theory was at the start of the summer that Manchester United’s talented squad, who claimed the English accolade last season, along with the club’s monolithic infrastructure and efficiency off the pitch would be able to withstand losing such an iconic manager, even if his replacement bared no particular experience at title-winning or even Champions League level.
But the transition process hasn’t quite gone to plan, as the Red Devils find themselves in 9th place with 10 points after seven games, and the performances have been almost as disturbing as the results.
So what is it that the reining Premier League champions are missing exactly without Ferguson at the helm? They have the same title-winning squad as last season, with the added midfield influence of Marouane Fellaini, and although the Scot’s talents are well-known, he’s hardly been the most hands-on manager over the last few years.
Joey Barton even quipped in a recent meeting with the press that Ferguson ‘couldn’t put on a training session to save his life’, and although few United fans would pay attention to the words of a controversial midfielder who has spent the majority of his footballing career with the noisy neighbours and can’t even claim first-hand experience on the issue, it’s by no means the first story we’ve heard to suggest the Scot’s role significantly reduced in the latter stages of his managerial tenure.
Yet, Jamie Carragher believes the former gaffer was still worth in excess of ten points per season, for his ability to pressurise referees, galvanise his players and wind-up the opposition. An interesting valuation considering the Red Devils have dropped eleven points so far this year.
More than anything else however, or any particular positive managerial attribute to Ferguson’s name, I believe it’s the psychological edge over opponents Ferguson, or rather Ferguson’s image, provided that the Red Devils are suddenly missing this season.
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With a Ferguson side, you knew exactly what you were getting, because it was what the man came to symbolise over the years; work-rate and hustle for a full ninety minutes, an aggressive determination to succeed, and the confidence that they could beat any opponent, big or small, and overcome any burden to recover from a losing position.
The combination provided a fear factor the Red Devils, just as the famous ‘hairdryer treatment’ did for Ferguson’s players, a kind a preceding reputation, a myth of monolithic dominance, that insisted upon their opponents to play in a more negative and cautious manner to accommodate for it.
But now, for the first time in the best part of twenty years, United’s ability to overcome any endeavour has seriously come into the question, as has their in-build determination, and as a result, other Premier League clubs have simply stopped being scared of them. As West Brom proved a few weeks ago, if you go to Old Trafford positively and well-prepared, without getting caught up in Manchester United’s tradition of success, then you can claim results, and other clubs are now beginning to follow suit.
And it’s not simply a case of what goes on during any particular match-day -Ferguson’s image of a man who should be feared, and subsequently United’s as a club that should be feared, was constantly maintained in the media and by pundits, as well as being a rather self-fulfilling phenomena.
Now however, we’ve already seen a wealth of criticism from the British press over Moyes’ failed transfer pursuits in the summer, not to mention his side’s performances on the pitch. If Sir Alex had made just a single addition to a title-winning squad, nobody would have batted an eye-lid. Similarly, if the Red Devils had started the season in such poor form with Moyes’s predecessor still at the helm, they would have undoubtedly been tipped to bounce back in the title race, rather than suddenly fade away.
It’s this psychological edge that Moyes must somehow try to reaffirm if he’s to make a success of his Manchester United tenure. It will be no easy feat, considering Ferguson’s powerful image was a cumulative effect of his maintained managerial successes over the years.
But if he can’t do it via results, there are other ways too. Ferguson regularly criticised referees and the press to put pressure on them, which was yet another showing of the Scot’s entrenched desire to succeed, and something Moyes should strongly consider replicating.
So far, we’ve seen the United boss criticise the FA’s schedulers by alluding the tough start to his Old Trafford career in terms of fixtures could only have been a product of design rather than fate, but we need to witness further aggression and temper from Ferguson’s successor in the public eye.
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That being said, the Ferguson mark 2 act won’t be convincing without results – in fact, it could have the adverse effect – and although United’s performances have a long way to go before they start living up to the dominant displays that further helped provide the Red Devils’ fearsome image, the impetus over the next few weeks must be to claim as many wins as possible, and put notions that the United have become a soft touch over the course of the summer to bed.
Moyes has a great opportunity to do so however now that his difficult start in the Premier League is out of the way. Regular giant-killers Southampton may prove an issue, but after facing the Saints at Old Trafford this weekend, the English champions take on Stoke, Fulham and Norwich over the next month, which is a more than ample enough opportunity for Moyes to re-instate his side’s dominance and monolithic reputation.
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Rickie Lambert believes Southampton can have no complaints after Saturday’s crushing 6-1 defeat away at Arsenal, The Southern Daily Echo reports.
Saints’ misery was compounded after Jos Hooiveld and Nathaniel Clyne both scored own-goals to add further gloss to the score line for the Gunners.
It sums up a brutal introduction to the Premier League for Nigel Adkins’ side, who remain the only side without a point this season and have conceded a whopping 14 goals in their first four matches.
He said: “I think they thoroughly deserved their victory, the margin as well,” he said. “We were unlucky with some goals, but they could have scored more as well. I think it was about right.”
The south coast side were constantly tormented by Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla, who are both proving to be very useful addition to Arsene Wenger’s team.
This led Lambert to admit that the visitors were simply not good enough to cope with the North Londoners.
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“We will have to look at it, but credit to Arsenal – I thought they were excellent. They had a couple of players we couldn’t handle”, he added.
Southampton will be aiming to get their first points of the season when they host Aston Villa at St Mary’s next Saturday.
Arsenal said goodbye to long-serving manager Arsene Wenger on Sunday, winning 1-0 away to Huddersfield Town in the English Premier League.
On an emotional day for the club, the Frenchman managed to secure one last victory, ending the Gunners’ dire away record in the top-flight since the turn of the year.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s goal in the 38th minute was enough for all three points.
While the win was welcomed by supporters, the performance was a reminder for some that there’s many players in the squad they’d love to get rid of this summer.
One of those is Danny Welbeck, who appeared from the bench to replace the goalscorer in the 67th minute.
He was largely ineffective in his time on the pitch and fans are pretty fed up with him, with plenty looking for the club to perhaps get rid of him this summer, or at least sign an upgrade.
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According to reports in The Sun, Southampton will face competition from Chelsea if they want to sign West Ham United striker Andy Carroll, who is rated at £8.9m according to Transfermarkt, during the January transfer window, and they have been dealt a blow with the Daily Mail reporting that the Blues have made an official enquiry.
What’s the word, then?
Well, The Sun reports that Saints are interested in the 28-year-old as they look to find a target man to replace the injured Charlie Austin, but the Blues are also keen on the centre-forward.
The Daily Mail has added that the Premier League holders have already enquired about bringing the England international to the club on loan until the end of the season.
How has Carroll done this season?
He has, once again, struggled with injuries that have stopped him getting a consistent run in the West Ham side, while he was also suspended after picking up a red card against Burnley earlier in the campaign.
The 28-year-old has netted twice in 12 Premier League appearances, although both of those came in the vital 2-1 victory against fellow strugglers West Bromwich Albion at the London Stadium on Tuesday.
Carroll is known for his heading ability and strength in the air, and according to WhoScored.com he has won 70 of the 118 aerial duels he has faced in those 12 league games.
Would he be a good signing for Southampton?
He certainly would be, as long as he can keep fit.
Saints enjoyed most of their success in recent years when they had Rickie Lambert and Graziano Pelle as lone strikers, and there is no doubt that Carroll has similar physical attributes.
His strength in the air and ability to hold the ball up and bring the rest of his attacking teammates into play could be crucial for a Saints side that are struggling for goals and lie above the relegation zone on goal difference.
Will they get him?
It doesn’t seem very likely.
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While Chelsea may feel that they could get Carroll on loan until the end of the season, the same won’t be said of Southampton, who look to be a relegation rival for the Irons right now.
If Saints are willing to pay over the odds to get the 28-year-old then a permanent deal could happen, but that seems unlikely even with the predicament they currently find themselves in.